It's finally time to get out of the House. And while I could keep the contract of my smartphone as part of our family AT & T plan, it would be inappropriate, it would be hypocritical hand dependency.
I sought the freedom and autonomy. But how to reach that in a world of two-year smartphone contracts? Furthermore, how could I continue to use my phone without breaking the Bank? I already pay a termination fee at the beginning as it was.
Free to contract carriers
The major carriers such as Sprint and Verizon loaded in the premium price, so I looked less known carriers here in the United States such as MetroPCS and Cricket. Virgin Mobile offers the best conditions: the lowest level of his plan "Beyond Talk" offers unlimited data and texts for $25 per month, more than 300 minutes and more.
It is a steal compared to most wireless telecommunications. Especially for someone like me, who almost never speaks on his phone and he uses only to wireless Internet. But it is also the same amount that I paid for my family plan contract, over my smartphone AT & T would work on Virgin Mobile network. So I would have to pay early termination fees, buy a new phone, and then pay the same amount that I paid already, so I could have my name cheap data plan. Certainly, there was a better way.
Booming on the GoPhone plan
When I discovered AT & T introduced a new GoPhone Android, the LG prosper, I am excited me. Labor because it was not only a real Android smartphone on a prepaid data plan, the selection of plans had good markets low range options. $25 Gets you unlimited text and data on Virgin Mobile gets only you 500 MB per month on a GoPhone, but there is also a plan of $15 to 100 MB.
I am usually a Wi - Fi hotspot, so for me, 3 G wireless Internet access is less than a buoy rescue and an emergency plan. $15 Per month is the least expensive way for me to access AT & T wireless network, use the AT & T hotspots for free and get unlimited free text with Google voice. And while the iPhone apparently cannot be changed to a GoPhone plan, my HTC Aria could without problem, so I didn't even have to buy a thrive.
What voices?
I was dismayed to find of that voice of Google do allow you to make free phone calls and requires that you have minutes voice. In addition, more economic voice on GoPhone plan is $ 25 for three months, and he gives way more minutes that I need.
I consider apps VOIP such as GrooVe IP, which apparently allows you to make free calls with your Google voice number. Which is not bad for a $4 app and basically give me unlimited minutes when I'm near a Wi - Fi hotspot. The House and in the stores that have Wi - Fi, it would still be letting make me quick calls using my data plan, as to meet or to verify if a store is open.
But will it blend (in your life)?
A phone with no minutes and almost no data is probably not good for most people. I haven't tried Virgin Mobile network, but if I had not already an AT & T phone I would have probably purchased a LG Optimus V Virgin and its cheap plan beyond talk. An additional amount of $10 per month for unlimited data could come handy, sometimes.
Everyone lives in an area covered by Virgin, however. And by paying only $15 a month off the coast of contract for a smartphone? Sign me up.
Jared Spurbeck is an avid open-source software, which uses an Android phone and a laptop PC to Ubuntu. He has written on technology and electronics since 2008.
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